Tactics Northwest Open 2024

The Northwest Open has quickly become a staple event circled on every Pacific Northwest Skater’s summer calendar. With the long rainy winter ahead, the NWO is the perfect weekend for skaters from Seattle, Boise, Bend, Eugene, Southern California, and beyond, to make the pilgrimage to Portland. Skate, party, and enjoy some fleeting sun with 2,000 + skaters before that crappy weather rolls in.

Featuring Sebo Walker, Silas Baxter-Neal, Elijah Akerly, Kevin Kowalski, Alex Lobasyuk, Kasci Woolf, Dylan Clark, and many more.

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Highlights: Men’s Street VQS Qualifier | Rockstar Energy Open Portland 2024

The men’s VQS qualifier competition was the first big competition for many, while it was just another competition of many for others. The 12 skateboarders in the qualifier made their way to the Rockstar Energy Open in Portland, Oregon, by entering the online Video Qualifier Series and allowing fans and our judges to be the ones to criticize them on their skills. Watch all the best moves that went down in the men’s street VQS qualifier above, featuring Ryan Carrell, Tyson Bowerbank, John Bradford, Mikey Ray, Nels Rosen, Sewa Kroetkov, Johnny Purcell, Gabe Vigliotti, Julian Christianson, Alex Lobasyuk, Josh Douglas, and Jake Ilardi.

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Habitat Skateboards “XXIV”

Habitat brings in the New Year by commemorating their 24th Anniversary with a new video featuring Mark Suciu, Zac Coyne, Sean Evans, Silas Baxter-Neal, Jiro Platt, Alex Lobasyuk, Brian Delatorre, Stefan Janoski, Marius Syvanen, Kevin Lowry, Flo Martain, Tyler Dietterich, Kaue Cossa and Romel Torres.

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Northwest Open 2023 – Tactics Boardshop

Click play to see what unfolds when they unite for three days at Seek Skate Camp for the Northwest Open 2023, proudly presented by Converse Cons.

Featuring Louie Lopez, Silas Baxter-Neal, Simon Bannerot, Elijah Akerly, Kevin Kowalski, Kaden Ramos, Alex Lobasyuk, Kasci Woolf, Jake Yanko, Brian Delatorre, Nora Baker, Eli Williams, Ace Pelka, Kaue Cossa, Dylan Clark, Sebo Walker and many more.

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Trash Panda | Darkroom Skateboards X Tactics

Follow Alex Lobasyuk through the streets of Portland in “Trash Panda” the Darkroom Skateboards X Tactics capsule collection. This unique collaboration between Darkroom founder Don Pendleton, Alex, and Tactics features a custom graphic that pays homage to Don’s celebrated style, with a nod to the local “Trash Pandas” found throughout Oregon. The Trash Panda capsule includes a range of skateboard shapes, including the 8.25 and 8.5 popsicles shape skateboard and the 9.125 “Spectre” shaped cruiser board. Complete your look with the black short and long-sleeve T-shirts adorned with the “Trash Panda” graphic. Don’t miss out on this must-have collection for any Tactics or Darkroom fan!

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G-FILES 002 – JENKEM

Ahead of the release of the long-awaited Genesis 3 video, JENKEM brings you G-FILES 002 by Ian Ostrowski.

Ian’s a friend of Jenkem, a recurring contributor, and he holds it down with a dope crew of up-and-comers out of the Pacific Northwest. Featuring Dylan Clark, Caden Smith, Jasper Levine, Xavier Holte, Alex Lobasyuk, Nacho Ponce, Tim Hogan, Rafi Dadd, KJ Phanissay, Jacob Ball, Darrian Williams, Cass Bermudez, Bao Nguyen, Levi Hirose, TJ Robinson, Kam Loveless, Troy Gipson and Pepe Betancourt.

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G-FILES 001 – JENKEM

The Genesis crew out of Seattle has slowly become part of the Jenkem fam over the past couple of years, so they decided to ask filmer and editor Ian Ostrowski if he’d be down to film a recurring segment for the site while he finalizes Genesis 3 (which will be coming very soon). The result is our latest series dubbed “G-Files.” Take a peek into the Genesis world and let us know what guest skater we should throw into their van for the next episode. Featuring Dylan Clark, Caden Smith, Cass Bermudez, Jasper Levine, Darrian Williams, TJ Robinson, KJ Phanissay, Cole Hartman, Carl Depaolo, Nacho Ponce and Alex Lobasyuk.

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